perf: Expand definition of sysfs format attribute
authorMichael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Fri, 10 May 2013 15:33:00 +0000 (17:33 +0200)
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Wed, 29 May 2013 13:11:40 +0000 (16:11 +0300)
commitfd851780e61ac36e8d59fe87cca01a2e673930ff
treec60086d7d8d423fca44f217941a0497ff7068c48
parent54aa3b99982a6e5f12b52b394244b5086a330a34
perf: Expand definition of sysfs format attribute

Make it explicit that the format attributes may define overlapping bit
ranges. Unfortunately this was left unspecified originally, and all the
examples show non-overlapping ranges. I don't believe this is an ABI
change, as we are defining something that was previously undefined, but
others may disagree.

The POWER8 PMU would like to define overlapping ranges, as bit ranges in
the event code have different meanings for certain events. It will also
allow us to define an overarching "event" field, that encompasses all
others.

As far as I can see perf is comfortable with this change, however I am
not sure if there are any other users of the interface.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1368199980-20283-1-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-event_source-devices-format